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Rabbi Mark Gottlieb is Senior Director of the Tikvah Fund and founding Dean of the Tikvah and Maimonides Scholars at Yale University. Prior to joining Tikvah, Rabbi Gottlieb served as Head of School at Yeshiva University High School for Boys and Principal of the Maimonides School in Brookline, MA.His writing has appeared inFirst Things,Public Discourse,the University Bookman,the Algemeiner,andthe Jewish Review of Books. Rabbi Gottlieb is a member of the Orthodox Forum Steering Committee and serves on the Editorial Committee ofTradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought.The Rabbi joins Rabbi Kivelevitz to discuss leadership training education,how candidates are vetted and eventually selected,and what constitutes the main focus of the seminars and lectures the fellows attend.Rabbi Gottlieb sees the personal interview as a primary factor, over thegradesand reports from the student's teachers, as well astheessays the applicants submit.He illustrates how hobbies and interests are in many ways an indicator of thethoughtleader that Tikvah is eager to engage.Rabbi Gottlieb distinguishes between the program geared for studentswhoare moderately affiliated with the traditional Jewish community(Maimonides Scholars)and the program serving products of predominantly (but not exclusively)Orthodox day schools(Tikvah Scholars).The Rabbis discuss the balance between general literacy and skills in reading and parsing Jewish texts,and the importance of staffing the leadership seminars with passionate,gifted instructors.Rabbi Gotttlieb describes the incredible effectresulting fromthe hiring of persons like the eminent American philosopher and political economist Professor James R. Otteson,who not only opened the Tikvah students\u2019eyes to the important theories that form the basis of classical liberal political order,he illustrated how this technically underdetermined dynamic is at play in Klal Yisroel\u2019s innate understanding of who the Gadolei HaDor are.When questioned by Rabbi Kivelevitz as to why Tikvah has not attempted to cull their young potential from completely Charedi schools,where the boys(and, separately, young women)have the advantage of strong text proficiency and analysis,Rabbi Gottlieb pointed to Tikvah's role in Eretz Yisroel in catering programs and Torah journals to the Charedi world,and its discovery andcultivationof Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer,a student of Rav Asher Weiss, who now serves as head of Tikvah's Haredi Israel division.Rabbi Gottlieb speaks about Tikvah's connections toR'Aharon Kotler,the CEO of Bais Medrash Gevohah,but admits that there is more work to be done in reaching those special Talmidim in the Chasidish and Litvisha yeshivos,who could perhaps through the exposure to greater Western thought take their place as an accepted Gadol ready to tackle the formidable challenges that lay ahead for our people.Listen for the championing of some of the ideas of Pope John Paul II concerning the dignity of the human person,and the significance of Theology in applying and advocating for religious concepts in a modern world.There is also a casual reference to Mark Twain,and an oblique shadow of Phillip Roth.Please leave us a review or email us atravkiv@gmail.comFor more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate